Type of wine: Dry, Red
Grape varieties: 100% Portugieser
Alcohol: 12.42%
Acidity: 5.3 g/l
Residual sugar: 1.5 g/l
Extract: 26.5 g/l
Terroir, vineyard: Villány – Városhegy vineyard
Technology:
In accordance with the characteristics of the variety, in order to highlight its vivid
fruitiness, the harvested grapes were kept on the skin for a brief period of 10-11days, at a
temperature of 25-26 °C. Malolactic fermentation, and then maturation also took place in stainless steel tanks.
Serving temperature: 12–13 ̊C.
Food pairing: It is a good match with lighter Hungarian dishes, fish for example, and Italian starters and pastas.
Bottled quantity: 90.000 bottles
Cellar webshop retail price: 5–6 €
Award: 55th Villány Wine Contest 2024: Gold medal
Story – the legend of Villány: Once upon a time there was a blonde girl, Harka, who was so beautiful that even the devil fell in love with her. In his desperate love the devil agreed with the old witch (Harka’s mother) to plough the rocky mountain of Harsány within one night. The job seemed impossible: the rocky surface was hard and solid, nobody had been able to plough it before him. The witch told him: „if you don’t succeed, you have to promise to go back to hell immediately!” The devil was strong and devoted: it was not even midnight when he almost finished. The old witch loved her daughter, she was afraid of losing her, so she was thinking hard to come up with a solution. Finally, she ran to the hen house and started to crew, just like roosters do at dawn. Though sunrise was hours away, she could wake up the neighbour roosters, who replied to her voice, and suddenly the cocks of the whole village were crowing. The devil was shocked, he had not finished yet! He was furious but had to leave, the place where he went down the hell is still there in the town of Harkány, hot water has been coming to the surface since there to supply the famous Harkány spa. And if you drive from Harkány to Villány, you can still see the traces of his plough, a quarry on the rocky mountain.
